On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:18:17 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Peter
Flass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>
>I guess most unix people use cvs, rcs, etc. nowadays, as someone posted.
> There used to be lots of use of diff and patch. Lacking sequence
>numbers, they worked either by line nunber or by using one or more lines
>of context to identify the line to be changed.
There still is: cvs diff to generate the patches for distribution, and
patch to apply them to your local copy, before the change is committed
to cvs; no other option if you don't have remote access to the cvs
repository.
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Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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